About the Author
Lou Mauget

Lou Mauget

Known as Ed Mauget in civilian life. Lou is a name imposed by IBM in 1966. Newly infatuated with Microservices Architecture. In 2015 I coded MockOla, a wire-framing tool for Keyhole Software. Have coded in Java since it was conceived. Also worked with C/C++. Current interests include microservices, Docker, Node JS, NoSQL databases, functional programming, single-page web applications ... any new software languages/frameworks.

JavaScript Promises Are Cool

Lou Mauget Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, JavaScript 4 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 12 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.โ€œAnd when I promise something, I never ever break that promise. Never.โ€ โ€• Rapunzel Many languages have libraries of interesting schemes called promises, deferreds, …

MongoDB Geo-Spatial Mobile Demo

Lou Mauget Articles, Databases, Mobile, MongoDB 2 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.Mongo: noun (pl mongo or mongos) โ€“ a monetary unit of Mongolia. Equal to one hundredth of a tugrik. Origin from Mongolian โ€œsilverโ€ Iโ€™ve …

Mapping Shortest Routes Using a Graph Database

Lou Mauget Articles, Databases, Development Technologies & Tools, Java 12 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.We often model interconnected data by cramming it in and out of table structures. Why donโ€™t we simply model interconnected data as โ€ฆ interconnected …

A Mobile Application Served From CouchDB

Lou Mauget Articles, Development Technologies & Tools, Mobile, Tutorial 6 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.โ€œA DBMS as an application server? Is it Lotus Notes?โ€ CouchDB CouchDB seemed odd to me in 2009 because it had โ€ฆ no SQL! …

Is NoSQL The SQL Sequel?

Lou Mauget Articles, Databases, Development Technologies & Tools, Opinion, SQL 8 Comments

Attention: This article was published over 13 years ago, and the information provided may be aged or outdated. While some topics are evergreen, technology moves fast, so please keep that in mind as you read the post.โ€œCanโ€™t we all just get along?โ€ย  I assert that the explosion of so-called NoSQL database management systems (DBMS) is not displacing the well-known relational …